??176: Chapter 073: Ancient People Truly Did Not Deceive
176: Chapter 073: Ancient People Truly Did Not Deceive
Between heaven and earth, a cold wind raged.
The dim luster was suddenly reflected off the enormous, rusty vulture, illuminating Jia Yongheng’s face at that mont.
His face still bore a shocked expression, and the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.
Yet, the vulture snatched by his Sword Intent and dropped into the Black Water, even as powerful as it was, had already decomposed into pitch-black particles, as if encountering a massive amount of highly corrosive liquid, and was instantly corroded beyond recognition.
On the water’s surface, a few pitch-black, shiny feathers as tough as steel floated lonely, nearly identical to the solitary white Spirit Armor that Zhou Yan had seen earlier.
They were also incredibly lonely.
This was a montum.
A montum that made one feel loneliness and solitude at a glance.
“Sigh…”
Exhaling a turbid breath, Jia Yongheng ca back to his senses.
He silently watched the vulture corrode into lonely feathers in the Black Water, his expression unavoidably filled with a sense of lancholy.
He had always appeared optimistic and casual, and Zhou Yan was seeing this lancholic side for the first ti.
Zhou Yan sighed softly, witnessing the powerful vulture disintegrate into feathers in the blink of an eye; he couldn’t help but recall the mont Zhou Lingyi had called out to him.
That scene was illusory, yet it seed real.
But whether it was true or false, even now, Zhou Yan still couldn’t determine.
Yet, he suddenly beca very worried about Zhou Lingyi.
Although this woman had not been kind to him initially, it was Zhou Lingyi’s calling that had awakened him when he had previously been turned into a walking corpse by the allure of the Netherworld.
“This power, you saw it, didn’t you?”
Jia Yongheng suddenly spoke as Zhou Yan walked out of the Netherworld River.
“It’s strong and terrifying.”
Zhou Yan nodded in agreent.
“Yes, but it cannot harm you.
There’s a saying, ‘Having the Heavenly chanism Soul Stone protects one from the Netherworld Water.’ If you don’t need my help, then return the Black Iron chunk you took from .”
Jia Yongheng stared at Zhou Yan, his gaze intensifying.
“Black Iron, haven’t you already checked it?
Could it be, this is the Heavenly chanism Soul Stone?”
Zhou Yan asked in surprise.
“Yes, an initial estimate says probably not wrong, otherwise you wouldn’t be unafraid of the Netherworld Water.
But that’s just one reason,” Jia Yongheng explained, frowning slightly.
“If that’s really the case, then I can only regret to tell you, I threw it away,” Zhou Yan said calmly, looking at Jia Yongheng.
After speaking, his gaze unconsciously drifted towards the river in the distance, as if recalling the scene of ‘Zhou Lingyi awakening him’ earlier.
From his arrival here, casually throwing the ‘Black Iron’ into the lake, to being lured by the lake water and nearly dying—
He deliberately recalled the entire sequence of events.
But this ti, Zhou Yan didn’t specifically recall anything about the Purple Fla Lotus or the space between his brows.
In his mory, the Black Iron was thrown into the Netherworld, not refined by the Purple Fla.
This thought was even sowhat unguarded.
Indeed, while recalling this, Zhou Yan felt an energy like the Law of Ti circulating inside and outside his body as if at that mont, everything about him was completely exposed.
So secrets could be spied on by the powerful.
Although this sensation lasted only a mont, Zhou Yan still knew that Jia Yongheng had used so incredibly powerful thod to subtly probe so matters.
Zhou Yan remained silent, pretending to be unaware of this scene while continuing to ‘reminisce’ about Zhou Lingyi.
Because this too was his true ntal state.
As expected, a short while later, Jia Yongheng’s expression beca lively again.
He suddenly pointed at Zhou Yan with a sowhat inexplicable trembling, “Indeed, bad things happen whenever I et you…
I should have known, I just didn’t believe it would be so, tried it out foolishly anyway.
Indeed, the Emperor Qi Sword Body can subtly suppress other Sword Bodies.”
Jia Yongheng’s eyes clearly showed disappointnt, and he did not consider Zhou Yan’s feelings as he began to sigh heavily.
Zhou Yan felt slightly settled inside and asked, “Jia Lingzhe, what are you doing?”
“I’m heartbroken, this ti really unlucky to the extre, encountering your supre Sword Body!
Alas, the ancients say, the Emperor Qi Sword Body suppresses all Sword Bodies, and I didn’t believe it.
Now it seems, the ancients did not deceive !”
Jia Yongheng’s tone was filled with a profound sense of resentnt.
Zhou Yan inwardly shuddered slightly, not knowing much about the Emperor Qi Sword Body, yet even if he began to understand sothing at this mont, he still pretended to be clueless, frowning and saying, “Jia Lingzhe, why do you so easily believe my re words?
Are you not worried that I might be deceiving you?”
Jia Yongheng glanced at Zhou Yan, that look containing a hint of disdain, then earnestly and trustingly said, “Given the character and integrity of Zhou Lingzhe, loyal to his word, naturally trustworthy.”
“Trusting my ass, if it weren’t for your special thod to sense the outco, thereby learning about the earlier ‘events’, how could you so easily believe ?”
Zhou Yan felt deep disdain for this sowhat ‘shaless’ person deep in his spirit, yet he didn’t dwell on this point, and instead maintained a sorrowful deanor.
“Fortune cos by grace, loss by destiny.
Jia Lingzhe, you should try to co to terms with it.
If this is the case and you missed out on the Heavenly chanism Soul Stone, then it must simply be that the opportunity had not yet arrived.”
Zhou Yan said this with a sense of lancholy.
“After all, Zhou Lingzhe, next ti I definitely won’t accompany you again.
The first ti I nearly lost my life, and this ti I even lost the Heavenly chanism Soul Stone that was practically in my hands.
Comparatively, I really wish I could chop off my own hands!
My hands are too impulsive!
Ancient sayings, I did not believe them, this is what I deserve!
The ancients, indeed do not deceive !”
Jia Yongheng continued to mutter to himself, his face full of regret.
“I’ve co to view these matters more indifferently.
Rather… Previously, I didn’t know what was true or false, it all felt very illusive, and then a scene appeared featuring a once ‘family mber,’ who, because of , seed to have encountered danger.”
Zhou Yan explained.
“That should have been more likely to bring misfortune than fortune, Netherworld, it is actually a true projection.
True and false, false and true, this world, it is just like this.
Look at that Spiritual Armor, the waters of the Netherworld, eventually, are dust to dust, earth to earth, what remains must be nothing but a strand of obsession.
The vultures leave behind a few feathers, representing their nurous harrowing experiences riddled with wounds.
And that white Spiritual Armor, it represents, perhaps, a trace of her imprinted in the mories.”
Jia Yongheng, looking at the feathers and Spiritual Armor floating on the Netherworld water in the distance, couldn’t help but explain.
“Is that so?”
Zhou Yan frowned, feeling sowhat disheartened inside.
“Yes.
Don’t believe, let
show you once more,” said Jia Yongheng.
He suddenly addressed the few glossy black Iron Feathers floating, “Life and death are the creations of Heaven and Earth.
Those with opportunity live, those without, die in chaos.
Thus, why harbor any unwilling obsessions?
Dissipate swiftly, return to the Tao, and reincorporate into Heaven and Earth, for only then can one undergo a brand new cycle of life!”
Jia Yongheng’s voice was piercingly clear.
Even for soone as accomplished as Zhou Yan, who had cultivated up until now, he had never heard such charming words.
But aside from its charm, more so, it was a natural law from the depths of the heart, a law carrying genuine Tao Rules and charisma, compelling serious contemplation.
Zhou Yan’s attention was quickly captured by the next scene, for the feathers floating on the black water had begun to fragnt and disperse.
They disappeared quickly.
“So, does that an only those who have truly perished and left behind obsessions end up like this?”
Zhou Yan asked deeply.
“Yes.”
Jia Yongheng affird.
“But, it’s impossible for Zhou Lingyi to have co here.
Why then is her Spirit Armor here?”
Zhou Yan asked curiously.
“True and false, false and true.
She doesn’t have to co here; as long as she is connected to you, and you are here, that’s already enough.”
Jia Yongheng continued to explain.
But his explanation only added to the heaviness of Zhou Yan’s mood.
When Zhou Yan recalled Zhou Lingyi, the first thing that ca to mind was the scene of the Cold Pond crane shadow, Cold Moon, and Qing Qiu.
Yet before that, he had had many more encounters with Zhou Lingyi.
He vividly rembered, the first ti, having a piece of clothing with rely a trace of Spiritual Energy, not yet qualifying as Spirit Armor, she was proud like a swan.
That mont, she was genuinely happy.
That mont, she didn’t have such a proud heart.
That mont, to him, Zhou Yan, she was still a beloved little brother.
That mont, she was actually very simple, just simply admiring Zhou Yan for his talented comprehension.
…
Now, what does this floating Piece of Spiritual Armor indicate?
Zhou Yan remained silent, eventually letting out a sigh.
He didn’t speak but took out a flask, tipped his head back, and took a big gulp, allowing the scorching liquor to burn through his life and soul.
“Don’t be too sad, getting used to the cycles of life and death is best.
Well, I won’t say more, you’ve lost the Heavenly chanism Soul Stone to the Netherworld, but since you’ve proved that the waters of the Netherworld don’t scare you, how about you help
retrieve it?”
Jia Yongheng hesitated for a mont then made a quite unexpected request.
Zhou Yan, upon hearing this, his expression changed and said, “This Netherworld, since it’s a certain death route, how can you ask
to go down to find the Heavenly chanism Soul Stone?”
“I can’t make the Netherworld water harmless to , but you can!
I speculate that your flas will surely protect you!
How about it?
Help
find it, and you surely won’t be treated unfairly!”
Jia Yongheng, with an enticing tone, seed to try to make Zhou Yan agree to his arrangent.
“You really think too highly of !” Zhou Yan responded with a bitter smile, then continued, “It’s only possible because I have a Spirit Armor crafted from a lotus that lived in a similar environnt.
This Spirit Armor can withstand the corrosion of the Netherworld, but, how long it can last, no one can be sure.”
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